Cinder-car and the like.



E. G. SHERMAN.

GINDER GAB. AND THE LIKE.

' APPLICATION FILED MAE.31,1911.

INVENTOH WILINESSES COLUMBIA PLANDGRAPH cm, WASHINGTON. D- C.

E. c. SHERMAN. OINDER CAR AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED MABQ31, 1911.

Patented July 11, 1911.

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UNITED,

s'ra'rns PATENT OFFICE.

' nnwm' o. SHERMAN, or YouNGs'rowN, 01110, ASSIGNOR TO THE WILLIAM B. POLLOCK COMPANY,OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

CINDER-GAR AND THE LIKE.

Specification bf Letters Patent.

Patented Jul 11, 1911.

Application filed March 31, 1911. Serial No. 618,223.

To all whom it may concern: pot.

Be itknown that I, Enwnv C. SHERMAN, of Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio,

have invented a new and useful Improvescrewed on the members at the under side of the lugs and upwardly against washers 17 These washgage slots 15 in lugs 16 on the lower curing both bar to the pot,.to-

The nuts 14 are ment in CindenGars and the Like, of which ers are preferably provided with the upthe following is a full, clear, and exact deward projections 17*, which fit correspondscription, reference being had to the accoming recesses in the lugs 16, and thusprevent panying drawings, forming part of this the members 10 from being disengaged. by specification, in w ich lateral movement. The upper headed'ends Figure 1 is a vertical section of a pot of the members 10 are likewise secured embodying my inve tion, and also showing against lateral disengagement by the straps a portion of a pot-lifting mechanism in 18. Two of the straps 10 are preferably arside elevation, and Fig. 2 is an elevation, ranged at each side of the pot, one at eac partly in section, at right angles to Fig. 1. side of the lifting lugs 9, and these lifting My invention has relation to certain new lugs are preferably integral with the lugs and useful improvements in pots for hol 13, in which the headed upper ends of the ing material of various kinds, and which straps are seated. These straps or tie memare required to be lifted, and in which the bers extend across the portion of -the pot material composing the pot is not of such where the cracks are most likely to occur, character as .to make its handling safe. and serve to transfer the lifting strain to is more particularly useful in connection the lower portion of the pot and below'the with pots for holding cinder from open point where cracks usually develop. The hearth steel furnaces, which must often be straps or tension members 10 may be of a lifted when full of hot cinder. These pots metal of greater tensile strength than the are usually made of cast iron, and the heat material of whichthe pot is composed; and to which they are subjected frequently can be put under any desired degree of tenc'auses them to crack, and thus become weaksion by screwing up the nuts 14, thus putened. My invention is designed to proting the material of the pot from the top to vide reinforcing means which will transfer. the bottom, under a compression stress. the lifting strains to the lower portion of The lifting members or hangers 7, being inthe pot, and thus prevent accident in case clined, engage the lifting lugs'S) close to the of breakage of the pot. 0t and thus relieve the tendency to distort In the accompanying drawings, the nuthe shape of the pot in lifting. The straps meral 2 designates a cinder pot, which is in or tie members may be arranged in various general of any usual or suitable character, ways, and I do not wishto limit myself to and which has the brackets 3, by means of the particular construction and arrangewhich itis supported on the usual trunnion ment shown. ring 4. What I claim is 5 designate suitable pot locking devices 1. A pot of the character described, havor dogs. inga separate reinforcing bar extending 6 designates a lifting beam having de-' from apoint near the top of the pot to a pending lifting hooks, one of which is point near the bottom, and means for securshown at 7 and which have headed lower ing both ends of said bar to the pot; subends 8 adapted for engagement with the stantially as des'c bed. slotted lifting lugs 9 on opposite sides of 2. A pot of the character described, hav= the pot. .ing exteriorly arranged tension members or 10 designate two straps or tension memstraps extending from and secured to points bers, having T-heads 11 at their upper ends, near the top of the pot to points near its botwhich seat in T-shaped slots 12 formed'in tom, and tensioning means for said members lugs 13 on-the sides of the pot near its upor straps; substantially as described. er ed e. The lower ends of the members 3. A pot of the character described, hav- 10 are preferably made of cylindrical form, ing a separate reinforcing bar extending and are threaded to receive the nuts from a point near the top of the pot to a The threaded end portions of the rod enpoint nearithe bottom, and means for seends of-saidno tension and the material of the pot between its top and bottom in compression; substantially as described.

4. A pot ofthe character. described, havpot of the character described, havlng a tension member connecting its upper 30 and lower portions, said member b6111 its lower portion, under compression; substantially as described. 5. A pot of the character described, havmg a reinforcing member arranged to hold said member; substantially as described. 35

lower portion, under compression, the pot also having lifting projections, and lifting means engaging. the said projections close to the shell of the pot and extendin u-pwardly in oblique lines; substantially as described.

6. A pot of the character described, having a reinforcing member arranged to hold t e material of the pot from its upper to its lower portion, under compression, the

pot also having slotted lifting projections,

and lifting membersor hangers passing 0bliquely downward through the slots of said its bottom, and tensioning means for said ranged in pairs, and the .pot having lifting means between the pairs of members;

substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have, hereunto' set my hand. a

. a ERWIN C. SHERMAN. Witnesses:

, H. C. DI'I'MANSEN,

. ALVIN.

Copies of'this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

